Countries Containing Both Spiegelberg and Pyrmont

 

This page covers the combined counties of Spiegelberg and Pyrmont prior to their partition in 1625. In addition to the core county/principality it covers a small territory in which administration was shared with the Bishopric of Paderborn.

 

Note that in the historical record, Spiegelberg and Pyrmont were part of a country known as the County of Lippe-Spiegelberg-Pyrmont between 1558 and 1583. That name never appears in the database. Instead, I represent it as one sovereign country and two quasi-countries (none of whose names appear in the historical record) as follows:

 

• Spiegelberg-Pyrmont-Sternberg (sovereign country in Lippian Germany)
• Lippe-Sternberg (quasi-country in Lippian Germany)
• Schaumburg-Lippe-Sternberg (quasi-country in Schaumbergian Germany)

 

Index of simplified country names referenced on this page

 

• Spiegelberg-Pyrmont
• Spiegelberg-Pyrmont\Paderborn

 

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County of Spiegelberg-Pyrmont

 

• Simplified country name:
  • Spiegelberg-Pyrmont (1494-1558)
  • Spiegelberg-Pyrmont-Sternberg (1558-1583)
  • Spiegelberg-Pyrmont-Tonna (1583-1625)
• Nation:
  • Minor-Dynastic Germany (1494-1558)
  • Lippian Germany (1558-1583)
  • Gleichenian Germany (1583-1625)
• Chronology
  • 1494: Created when Spiegelberg inherits Pyrmont upon the extinction of its line/beginning of database
  • 1558: Enters into a personal union with the Sternberg branch of the Lippe family upon the extinction of the Spiegelberg line
  • 1583: Enters into a personal union with Gleichen-Tonna upon the extinction of the Sternberg line
  • 1625: Terminated upon the transfer of Pyrmont to Waldeck-Eisenberg
• Successors
  • County of Spiegelberg (in pers. union w/Gleichen-Tonna)
  • County of Pyrmont (in pers. union w/Waldeck-Eisenberg)
•  Outsourcings
  • by Spiegelberg-Pyrmont to
    • Bishopric of Paderborn (1)
• Personal unions
  • Spiegelberg-Pyrmont as secondary
    • County of Lippe-Sternberg (1558-1583)
    • County of Gleichen-Tonna (1583-1625)

 

(1) This was not an outsourcing so much as a grudging concession to Paderborn’s claim of sovereignty over all of Pyrmont. It included only Gogericht Lügde, and the Bishopric still had the lesser share of administrative rights.

 

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County of Spiegelberg-Pyrmont (adm. shared w/Paderborn)

 

This quasi-country consisted entirely of Gogericht Lügde.

 

• Simplified country name: Spiegelberg-Pyrmont\Paderborn
• Nation:
  • Minor-Dynastic Germany (1494-1558)
  • Lippian Germany (1558-1583)
  • Gleichenian Germany (1583-1625)
• Chronology
  • 1494: Created when Spiegelberg inherited Pyrmont upon the extinction of its line and Paderborn contested that claim/beginning of database (2)
  • 1558: Enters into a personal union with the Sternberg branch of the Lippe family upon the extinction of the Spiegelberg line; Paderborn maintains its claim
  • 1583: Entered into a personal union with Gleichen-Tonna upon the death of the Lippian count; Paderborn maintains its claim
  • 1625: Terminated upon the transfer of Pyrmont to Waldeck-Eisenberg
• Successor: County of Pyrmont (in pers. union w/Waldeck-Eisenberg; adm. shared w/Paderborn)
• Personal unions
  • Spiegelberg-Pyrmont as secondary
    • County of Lippe-Sternberg (1558-1583)
    • County of Gleichen-Tonna (1583-1625)

 

(2) Upon the extinction of the Pyrmont line, the Bishop of Paderborn claimed the entirety of Pyrmont. However, he was unable to back up his claim and settled for a lesser share of administrative rights in Gogericht Lügde.

 

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